The Optimist by Keach Hagey 📘 Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the AI Race Reviewed

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📘 Who is shaping the future of artificial intelligence, and how did we get here?

In this video, I review The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey, a work of reported nonfiction that explores the rise of Sam Altman, the origins of OpenAI, and the culture of Silicon Valley optimism driving the AI boom.

This is not a technical book about how AI works. Instead, it focuses on people, institutions, ambition, and power. Hagey traces Altman’s early life, his rise through startup culture and Y Combinator, and the evolution of OpenAI from an idealistic research lab into one of the most influential organizations shaping the future of AI.

In this video, I discuss:
📖 Sam Altman’s background and worldview
📖 The founding and evolution of OpenAI
📖 Silicon Valley optimism and its risks
📖 Why AI development feels inevitable and difficult to slow
📖 What this book helped me understand that headlines alone did not
📖 Who this book is for and who may want to skip it

Before reading this, I knew very little about Altman or the internal history of OpenAI. This book was genuinely informative and gave me much-needed context for understanding the current AI moment. It’s measured, well reported, and avoids both hype and panic.

If you’re trying to make sense of how artificial intelligence moved so quickly into everyday life, this is a very solid place to start.

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0:00 Hook
0:30 Introduction
1:29 Keach Hagey
3:04 The Optimist Summary
3:20 Part I: 1985-2005
3:51 Part II: 2005-2012
4:29 Part III: 2012-2019
5:14 Part IV: 2019-2024
6:32 The Epilogue
7:00 Personal Reaction
8:05 Personal Reaction
8:16 Who is this for?
9:07 Who is this NOT for?
10:04 Final Thoughts